The 8 Laws of Health
The Seventh Law of Health is
REST
Rest is one of the most basic healers known to mankind. When you become sick, what is the first thing you would normally do? You lie down! The restorative power of rest is a key to the success of all other remedial agencies.
Do you need rest if you are not ill? To a startling degree, it is the lack of adequate rest while you are well that ‘causes you to become sick. You do not need to sleep in order to rest. Just a change of pace - doing something different - can bring rest to your mind and body. Different muscles are used, different things are considered and you begin to relax.
One of the reasons that many people have nervous breakdowns is that they try to surpass and have the supremacy, so they go at high speed, without adequate rest, until the body machinery breaks under the load.
Take time to rest. Just go outside and sit in a chair and do nothing. If that sounds ominous to you, then you are the very one who needs to re-study your attitude toward adequate rest.
Points to remember:
- Rest should be preceded by exercise. It is the exercise that
makes the rest necessary.
- Keep in mind that one's best sleep is with the stomach
empty.
- Adequate rest is necessary in order to protect the
alkalinity of the blood. This is due to the fact that waste
matter is especially eliminated during those periods when you
are resting or asleep.
- Regularity in obtaining sleep is essential to the body's
repair system, so try to go to bed at the same time every night.
- Make sure that there is a fresh current of air coming into
your room while you sleep. If you do not have that fresh air,
you will wake tired and exhausted.
- Only those who use their muscles in the day enjoy a sweet
sleep at night.
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T = Trust |
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